The design of 2010 Olympic medals unveiled Thursday feature contemporary aboriginal artworks and are undulating rather than flat — both firsts in Games history. The medals, produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, are based on tw...

Michael Vick's return to the NFL was ordinary at best. The moments before it happened though, lifted his heart and made his day. For the record, Vick carried once for 7 yards, threw two incompletions and either handed off or was a decoy on eight other...

University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, poised to make a splash in next year’s National Football League draft, left hospital Sunday a day after suffering a concussion in a game. Tebow, who will certainly be a top c...

Just as news spread of an Indonesian woman giving birth to a 19.2-pound (8.7-kilo) baby boy , the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country, another story of a rare birth has surfaced in the headlines: A pregnant Arkansas woman went in for an ult...

Could the international furore over South African runner Caster Semenya's true gender have any more twists and turns? First, she wins the gold medal at the world championship 800-metre race in Berlin. Then, questions about her gender begin swirli...

Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams is making a friendlier gesture to the Buffalo Bills one week after his obscene hand sign to fans of the team earned him a hefty fine. A full-page ad on the back of Sunday’s Buffalo News says, “We wish the Bills and...

A head-on collision south of Calgary on Saturday afternoon took the lives of four women, including friends Emma Colleen Ransom, 19, Cayley Maureen Chapman, 18, and Joilinn Edgar, 19. Ms. Ransom's family released the following statement Sunday...

Is it any wonder Nikolai Khabibulin has a bad back, given the number of times he has carried the Edmonton Oilers? As for his return, the goaltender could be back in the lineup Monday night. Or not. That’s the thing with back injuries, they come and...

Montreal Canadiens winger Georges Laraque will have a hearing with NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell on Monday to review Laraque’s knee on knee hit of Detroit’s Niklas Kronwall during the first period of Saturday’s game. Laraque was given two...

Canwest News Service TORONTO — One man was killed and another remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries after two shootings in Toronto early Sunday. Police received reports of one shooting in the city’s downtown core around 3:20 a.m. local...